How to Replicate Full Spectrum Sunlight Indoors: The Ultimate Light Bulb Test! (with data)

[Lollipop2]

A quick search and there are many articles if you want to read more. Here is one:

Biden administration finalizes rules phasing out incandescent and halogen lightbulbs Jan 1 2023​

Biden administration finalizes rules phasing out incandescent and halogen lightbulbs

For manufacturers, full enforcement of the new rule will begin Jan. 1, 2023. Retailers and distributors will have an extra seven months to comply.

www.adn.com

@itchaboyagain

 

[itchaboyagain]

A quick search and there are many articles if you want to read more. Here is one:

Biden administration finalizes rules phasing out incandescent and halogen lightbulbs Jan 1 2023​

Biden administration finalizes rules phasing out incandescent and halogen lightbulbs

For manufacturers, full enforcement of the new rule will begin Jan. 1, 2023. Retailers and distributors will have an extra seven months to comply.

www.adn.com

@itchaboyagain

Hmmmmm hopefully we'll be able to get around this with reptile lighting and heat lamps and sauna stuff?

Guess we'll see...

 

[Lollipop2]

Hmmmmm hopefully we'll be able to get around this with reptile lighting and heat lamps and sauna stuff?

Guess we'll see...

?? Hoping, I have my doubts…

 

[johnwester130]

where to buy in the uk

 

[itchaboyagain]

where to buy in the uk

That's a good question, I haven't found any non-US sources for GE Sun Filled.

Looks like there are LEDVANCE smart bulbs using SunLike diodes available in Europe. Or I suppose there's the Chinese Shanpu ZPro bulbs.

Also looks like LumiFlex would probably ship there, but they are strips.

LumiFlex 700 Pro Toshiba-SSC LED Strip Sunlike CRI97 neutral white 5000K 9000lm 24V 140 LEDs/m 16ft/5m reel (550lm & 1.2W/ft)

Flexible LED Strip with CRI97, for professional use that requires the best color rendering Recommended for general lighting (550 lm/ft) Linear control for constant brightness over the entire length

www.us.lumistrips.com

 

[Grapelander]

It seems like in the US Biden has banned incandescent and halogen lighting. Not sure when they will disappear but not too long from now. Long back I had made a post about the ban and what to do, but no one responded. This gives me some idea. I prefer incandescent but second best are halogen bulbs and have been using halogen as I can no longer find incandescent for a few years. Thank you.

Thanks for the heads up - hopefully we can knab some clearance before 2023.

Standard Light Bulbs | 1000Bulbs.com

Shop for standard shaped Incandescent bulbs from 15 to 1500 watts at 1000Bulbs.com, the Internet's largest lighting store.

www.1000bulbs.com

 

[Grapelander]

DIY Incandescent Light Bulb


Re-Inventing the Carbon Light Bulb

 

[Lollipop2]

Thanks for the heads up - hopefully we can knab some clearance before 2023.

Standard Light Bulbs | 1000Bulbs.com

Shop for standard shaped Incandescent bulbs from 15 to 1500 watts at 1000Bulbs.com, the Internet's largest lighting store.

www.1000bulbs.com

 

[Lollipop2]

DIY Incandescent Light Bulb


Re-Inventing the Carbon Light Bulb

Interesting ? Thanks for posting.

 

[johnwester130]

So the philips e27 bulbs - what do they do?

do the chicken lamps not mimic sunlight?

this method is better?

 

[itchaboyagain]

So the philips e27 bulbs - what do they do?

do the chicken lamps not mimic sunlight?

this method is better?

The Phillips e27 are just a normal LED bulb, nothing special about them.

Not sure what you mean by chicken lamp exactly, I assume tungsten filament. These bulbs mimic the infrared spectrum of sunlight fairly well.

This is all in the guide linked however.

 

[johnwester130]

The Phillips e27 are just a normal LED bulb, nothing special about them.

Not sure what you mean by chicken lamp exactly, I assume tungsten filament. These bulbs mimic the infrared spectrum of sunlight fairly well.

This is all in the guide linked however.

I was wondering how this method compares to the e27 philips bulbs?

 

[itchaboyagain]

I was wondering how this method compares to the e27 philips bulbs?

What method? Which phillips e27 bulbs? What are we comparing?

Are you asking how a standard Phillips led bulb compares to a full spectrum LED?

Haha I'm sorry but it's not clear to me what's actually being asked.

 

[johnwester130]

What method? Which phillips e27 bulbs? What are we comparing?

Are you asking how a standard Phillips led bulb compares to a full spectrum LED?

Haha I'm sorry but it's not clear to me what's actually being asked.

Yes - I am asking how the philips e27 bulbs compare to this method

 

[miquelangeles]

Yes - I am asking how the philips e27 bulbs compare to this method

E27 is the socket size, has nothing to do with light characteristics.

 

[itchaboyagain]

Yes - I am asking how the philips e27 bulbs compare to this method

We'll, so if you go to the Google sheets document you can pull up all of the raw data and "compare" any of the lights you'd like.

For example, the Phillips bulb is a fairly average blue pump phosphor LED bulb, nothing special, I tested it just for shits and giggles really.

As you can see from the data, the SPD graphs specifically, the GE Sun Filled and Shanpu ZPro LEDs have vastly different spectrums, far more "sun like".

However these individual LEDs are not a method. The method you're referring to I image is adding infrared and ultraviolet in addition to the full spectrum visible LED lights I just mentioned.

Doing this completes and helps round out an otherwise unnatural light spectrum to more closely mimick that of the sun.

 

[Grapelander]

I just tried to buy INCANDESCENT Bulbs from Amazon - they will not ship to California.
As soon as I switched to LED - it was no problem shipping.

So I went to 1000Bulbs.com and ordered
24 each - 60 Watt - 10,000 Hour bulbs - $2.61 a piece with tax & shipping.

We have 4 months to stock up - remember to get heat lamp bulbs and chicken lights also.

 

[Lollipop2]

I just tried to buy INCANDESCENT Bulbs from Amazon - they will not ship to California.
As soon as I switched to LED - it was no problem shipping.

So I went to 1000Bulbs.com and ordered
24 each - 60 Watt - 10,000 Hour bulbs - $2.61 a piece with tax & shipping.

We have 4 months to stock up - remember to get heat lamp bulbs and chicken lights also.

Thanks for this reminder! How quickly Amazon “conformed”.

 

[Grapelander]

Thanks for this reminder! How quickly Amazon “conformed”.

I think they conformed faster in California.
As I noted on another post they will not ship 'any' type of negative ionizer to California.
The good news is that I gave the business to another company.

 

[Lollipop2]

I think they conformed faster in California.
As I noted on another post they will not ship 'any' type of negative ionizer to California.
The good news is that I gave the business to another company.